If youâ€™ve held out on purchasing a RIMÂ BlackBerry PlayBookÂ tablet until the prices came down, your wait is just about over. The prices at retailersÂ in CanadaÂ and inÂ the U.S.Â have begun to slide down below the MSRPâ€™s of $499, $599 and $699 for the 16GB, 32GB and 64GB Wi-Fi models.

Starting today at Staples the 16GB Wi-Fi BlackBerry PlayBook has been dropped down to $249 after a $100.00 mail-in rebate, at the register you need to pay $349.99. That price is only going to last from today (9/25/2011) through next Saturday (8/1/2011). The rebate of $100 will come in the form of a Visa Prepaid card, and there is a limit of 5 rebates per household on this deal.

he price drops are indicative of the PlayBookâ€™s low sales numbers, but that should worry you if you think that RIM will do what HP did to the HP TouchPad and pull the plug. RIM actually still has a big software update in the pipeline for the PlayBook,Â BlackBerry Tablet OS 2.0, and the company is still actively reaching out to developers for more PlayBook applications.

A 16GB Wi-Fi BlackBerry PlayBook tablet boasts the following main features: